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Akira Iida
NationalityJapanese
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years1994-1996, 2000
TeamsTeam Kunimitsu Honda, TV Asahi Team Dragon
Best finish8th (1995, 2000)
Class wins1 (1995)

Akira Iida (Shinjitai: 飯田 章, Iida Akira, born 18 December 1969 in Sagamihara, Kanagawa) is a Japanese racing driver currently competing in the Super GT series in GT300 class with LM corsa, one of the teams under Toyota Motorsport's GAZOO racing arm. Iida won the 2002 All Japan Grand Touring Car Championship GT500 class with Esso Toyota Team LeMans, driving with Juichi Wakisaka. He also won 2013 Asian Le Mans Series GTE class driving for Team Taisan Ken Endless.

Iida was also a presenter on the Japanese Best Motoring TV series.

Career

Iida has competed in Super GT since 1994; he has five career wins and also won the driver's title in 2002.

Iida has also driven in Formula 3000 and Formula Nippon.

Being experienced at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Akira Iida did also participate in the 2008 24 Hours Nürburgring race as well as in VLN endurance races, winning his class twice with a Lexus LF-A.

On August 31, 2011, Iida recorded a lap time of 7:14.64 in a fully road-legal Lexus LFA Nürburgring Package around the Nürburgring Nordschleife. This marked a new fastest time for regular production cars, running on standard specification tyres.

Racing record

24 Hours of Le Mans

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1994 Germany Kremer Honda Racing
Japan Team Kunimitsu 		Japan Kunimitsu Takahashi
Japan Keiichi Tsuchiya 		Honda NSX GT2 222 18th 9th
1995 Japan Team Kunimitsu Honda Japan Kunimitsu Takahashi
Japan Keiichi Tsuchiya 		Honda NSX GT2 275 8th 1st
1996 Japan Team Kunimitsu Honda Japan Kunimitsu Takahashi
Japan Keiichi Tsuchiya 		Honda NSX GT2 305 16th 3rd
2000 Japan TV Asahi Team Dragon Japan Keiichi Tsuchiya
Japan Masahiko Kondō 		Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S-Élan LMP900 330 8th 7th
2002 Japan Team Taisan Advan Japan Atsushi Yogo
Japan Kazuyuki Nishizawa 		Porsche 911 GT3-RS GT 316 21st 3rd
2003 Japan Team Taisan Advan Japan Atsushi Yogo
Japan Kazuyuki Nishizawa 		Porsche 911 GT3-RS GT 304 19th 4th

Complete JTC/JTCC results

Year Team Car Class 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 DC Pts
1993 NISMO Nissan Skyline GT-R JTC-1 MIN
14 		AUT
5 		SUG
3 		SUZ
5 		AID
2 		TSU
1 		TOK
2 		SEN
18 		FUJ
3 		4th 119
1994 NISMO Nissan Sunny AUT
1 		AUT
2 		SUG
1 		SUG
2 		TOK
1 		TOK
2 		SUZ
1 		SUZ
2 		MIN
1 		MIN
2 		AID
1
14 		AID
2
13 		TSU
1
4 		TSU
2
2 		SEN
1
8 		SEN
2
Ret 		FUJ
1
12 		FUJ
2
10 		13th 24
1995 NISMO Nissan Sunny FUJ
1 		FUJ
2 		SUG
1
Ret 		SUG
2
DNS 		TOK
1
10 		TOK
2
7 		SUZ
1
6 		SUZ
2
Ret 		MIN
1
1 		MIN
2
7 		AID
1
6 		AID
2
4 		SEN
1
2 		SEN
2
3 		FUJ
1
Ret 		FUJ
2
6 		6th 67
1997 HKS OPEL Opel Vectra FUJ
1
C 		FUJ
2
C 		AID
1
10 		AID
2
Ret 		SUG
1
4 		SUG
2
5 		SUZ
1
6 		SUZ
2
Ret 		MIN
1
Ret 		MIN
2
DNS 		SEN
1
3 		SEN
2
1 		TOK
1
12 		TOK
2
DNS 		FUJ
1
13 		FUJ
2
Ret 		8th 43
Sporting positions
Preceded by All-Japan Grand Touring Car Champion (GT500)
2002 with:
Juichi Wakisaka 		Succeeded by


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